[dmitrygr]

I keep hearing “this is an huge opportunity” on every such discussion, and I keep wondering if people who say this are delusional or just clueless. You are NOT going to just magically get a new mobile os and a hardware maker from this. That is the sort of thing that needs billions in capital and a decade of work. Nobody will invest that, cause with Apple gone, the politicians who “took our iPhones away from us - their constituents” will be gone soon, and then so will the law. Thus there won’t BE a decade to develop a euroPhone and euroPhoneOS. And people who’d invest billions know all this. And won’t waste the billions…

[Eddy_Viscosity2]

Maybe. It could just mean that other players adapt to the new laws and eat their lunch because even if the profits made with the new laws may become less on a percentage basis, there is still a sh*t-ton of money on the table.

Also, I'd still rather this than the policy of 'let the big corporations do whatever they want and don't pass laws they don't like'.

[User23]

It might clarify things if you think about how it's operationally a form of severe protectionism.